He has also written numerous academic articles and books on mathematics, the most recent being The Num8er My5teries. Du Sautoy is also on the advisory board of Mangahigh.com - an online maths game website and has appeared on Channel 4 News and on BBC Radio 4's Today programme promoting the service and is a regular contributor to the same network's In Our Time. He also appears on the TV series School of Hard Sums with Dara Ó Briain, where he sets three mathematical questions with a real world application, for Dara O'Briain and a guest to solve, using mathematical and experimentation methods respectively.

Personal life

Du Sautoy was a post-doc at the Hebrew University. It was there he met his Israeli wife Shani.[1] They have three children, a son called Tomer and adopted twin daughters Magaly and Ina, who are being raised Jewish.[12]

Television

The Music of the Primes (BBC Four, 2005, BBC 2 2007). One hour documentary based on his book.

Painting with Numbers (Teachers TV 2006). Four fifteen-minute programmes covering numerous topics from risk and probability to concepts of infinity, from codes and cryptography to flowers and football.

The Num8er My5teries: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (Channel 5, 2006),[16] five Lectures about the great unsolved problems of mathematics.

The Story of Maths (BBC Four, 2008)[17] is a four-part series first broadcast on BBC Four. In this series he discovers techniques and theories from different times and cultures.

Horizon: Alan and Marcus Go Forth and Multiply (BBC 2, 2009). Alan Davies embarks on a maths odyssey with the help of mathematician Marcus du Sautoy.

The Code (BBC 2, 2011). A three-part documentary series which began broadcasting on 27 July 2011.

Faster Than the Speed of Light? (BBC 2, 2011). Marcus du Sautoy discusses the recent discovery, the faster-than-light neutrino anomaly, that neutrinos may travel faster than light. First broadcast on 19 October 2011.

Horizon: The Hunt for AI (BBC 2, 2012). Marcus Du Sautoy asks how close mankind is to creating computers or robots that can think for themselves - artificial intelligence, AI. First broadcast on 3 April 2012.

Precision: The Measure of All Things (BBC Four, 2013) Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why we are driven to measure and quantify the world around us and why we have reduced the universe to just a handful of fundamental units of measurement. First broadcast on 10 June 2013.

The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms (BBC Four, 2015) Mathematician Professor Marcus du Sautoy demystifies the hidden world of algorithms. First broadcast on 24 September 2015.